Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

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Has anyone been on Smuggler's Run as a solo traveler since the reopening? I'm wondering how good (or bad, really) this ride works with just one person.

Edit: Grammar!
I piloted it “Solo” and it was awesome. You can reach over and hit some of the other pilot buttons too. And it seemed the ride was programmed to account for only one rider. Rode it twice. Had a blast both times!
 
Wonder if a lot of people bailed due to the heat. The heat index got up to either 108 or 109 today

Wow! Well, that would definitely explain it!

We were at HS today, from 11:30-6. We didn't get a boarding pass at 2pm. It was crowded in toy story land around 1pm, but only 10-15 minute waits for toy story mania and saucers, 30 minutes for slinky dog. Waited 45 min for MMRR at 3:30. It was HOT today, 98, felt like 108. I'm not surprised that it looked dead after 6. We just couldn't take the heat anymore.

Sounds like they got there as it was clearing out then - their stream started at 2 I think and did say they waited about 45 minutes for MMRR as their first ride. That heat is insane - wow. Josh just speed walked over to Slinky for the final ride. I'm impressed how well he and his family do in the heat!
 
The net result is the same; eliminate the propagation of the virus forward for the duration of at least 1 flight/cruise. The service procedure/protocol would be quantified to show a replacement.

Where is the HEPA filter data to support COVID-19 elimination....err....propagation?
Do your own research if you care that much. I suspect you’re arguing in bad faith.
 


It's not a matter of accessibility to the animatronic, though. Joe Rhode has stated that the problem is not with getting to the animatronic (it would seem silly of them to have put such a complicated animatronic somewhere they couldn't access it for maintenance). The problem, from what I understand, has to do with the fact that the yeti sits on top of its own independent free-standing structure in the middle of the rest of the ride structure (Rhode described it as a complicated machine on top of a 150 ft tower inside a finished building) and mistakes in the bleeding edge construction techniques they used on Everest resulted in structural issues in the Yeti support tower such that it's not safe for it to run in "A mode." So they need to be able to get at the support tower to fix the structural issues while not damaging the yeti in the process which is why some think might require them cut open the side of the main structure. As Joe Rhode put it... "It's a hard problem."
Joe just might be my favorite social media follow. What a brilliant mind. Long story short, they Yeti as we know it is never getting “fixed.”
 


I really don't even know if this is on topic on this thread, but tonight I decided to close Mk since I have been 5 times since reopening but never until closing time. Tons of CM and management at the HUB making sure people kept their masks while taking pictures, they have also started telling us to keep masks on while riding, they told me on Dumbo, and Haunted Mansion, not on Pirates which was weird, maybe end of day slip, also told us while on Liberty Belle.
CoP had a line that stretched to the entrance of Peoplemover, made me happy :) it said 10 min wait
At the end of the night the Emporium and Confectionary were opened until 7:30 and by 7:05 both had lines outside. everything else promptly closed at 7pm
lines for monorail and ferry seemed long, the ferry was running all 3 so that will be your best option. If you are boating to Poly they are using the really old boats that go beyond slow, the trip was almost 20 min, not exaggerating
 
I really don't even know if this is on topic on this thread, but tonight I decided to close Mk since I have been 5 times since reopening but never until closing time. Tons of CM and management at the HUB making sure people kept their masks while taking pictures, they have also started telling us to keep masks on while riding, they told me on Dumbo, and Haunted Mansion, not on Pirates which was weird, maybe end of day slip, also told us while on Liberty Belle.
CoP had a line that stretched to the entrance of Peoplemover, made me happy :) it said 10 min wait
At the end of the night the Emporium and Confectionary were opened until 7:30 and by 7:05 both had lines outside. everything else promptly closed at 7pm
lines for monorail and ferry seemed long, the ferry was running all 3 so that will be your best option. If you are boating to Poly they are using the really old boats that go beyond slow, the trip was almost 20 min, not exaggerating

Maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve seen morning operation, mid day operation, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone talking about what its like at close.
 
Lookin at MDE and wait times don't look bad.
They didn't for a chunk of the day, but they have been higher than they were the first couple of weeks. I think people go first thing in the day, do everything they wanted to do, get tired of being hot with a mask on, and leave (not everyone, but a good number of people). Makes for longer waits early in the day and then thinning crowds later, especially at DHS. It has gotten busier lately, as some people have commented, but I wouldn't really say it's busy in the old sense.
 
DH and I were discussing, tonight, whether we'd feel safe enough at Disney Springs on our non-park Central Florida trip in 10 days to pop into any of the stores. We were watching Tim Tracker's vlog about DS at the time and then saw the line of people pouring into WoD. Not sure we are comfortable with that...but it is my birthday trip...DH said "I'm gonna have to run into the store and grab you a baby Yoda like PeeWee Herman rescued the snakes from the pet store aren't I?"

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I know there's been talk that Disney needs to do something to get people down (discounts, etc) so that they don't have to cut everything/go out of business. Most were saying it would be irresponsible to advertise...for the first time since before this all started, I have ads popping up on my Facebook feed for Universal Orlando...so maybe Disney could start there.
We have been seeing Walt Disney World ads on Youtube recently.
 
We have been seeing Walt Disney World ads on Youtube recently.

Said in the NBA thread that there hasn’t been a single WDW parks advertisement during either of tonight’s games. Seems like if they’re desperate for out of state guests they would be pushing the parks in commercials during a highly watched set of games airing on their network, with the games being played on WDW property

In the past, when Disney has been desperate for guests to come down and visit , they’d air commercials non-stop during NBA games on ABC/ESPN.
 
DH and I were discussing, tonight, whether we'd feel safe enough at Disney Springs on our non-park Central Florida trip in 10 days to pop into any of the stores. We were watching Tim Tracker's vlog about DS at the time and then saw the line of people pouring into WoD. Not sure we are comfortable with that...but it is my birthday trip...DH said "I'm gonna have to run into the store and grab you a baby Yoda like PeeWee Herman rescued the snakes from the pet store aren't I?"

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